tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post787304173152275103..comments2023-10-20T03:50:41.681-07:00Comments on Interconnected Echoes: Iphgenia BaalMatthew Stonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03727567284475764137noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5692473809910984645.post-88236503763784503152008-05-13T03:37:00.000-07:002008-05-13T03:37:00.000-07:00Some very interesting thoughts here. But assuming...Some very interesting thoughts here. But assuming that you believe that the human has a state of awareness/consciousness of its existence, the very capacity to understand that it has this awareness, to dream and to think about things in a way that we have never observed in any other life form, then how does attempting to do as little as possible to interact with the world we live in in hopes that we can be further and further incarnated as a life form that has less perception of its existence, less "consciousness", until it eventually dies and reaches nothing-ness, which is supposed to be Nirvana, be sensible? I'm not saying I'm an expert in this philosophy, but as a matter of basic logic it doesn't seem to make sense.<BR/><BR/>But you say, but how do you know humans have a better intelligence, or self-consciousness than other life forms. I would say, how do you not know, and if so, how can you play a whole life based on the possibility that that's the case?<BR/><BR/>But for sure the great thing Iphgenia says, which I have become increasingly aware of, is the conflict between the time it takes to figure things out and the time it takes to make something happen in life. Though I think it may take a lot less time to "change the world for the better" than to "get noticed" in some art world success/pr media/web world-wise way. This is especially difficult when you figure out too late in life that who you are as a person really needs fundamentally to be doing big things and/or well known.dalston shopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15962160333089300396noreply@blogger.com